The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the New Zealand soap opera ''

Shortland Street ''Shortland Street'' is a New Zealand Prime time, prime-time soap opera centring on the fictitious Shortland Street Hospital. The show was first broadcast on TVNZ 2 on 25 May 1992 and is New Zealand's longest-running drama and soap opera, be ...

'' in 2022, by order of first appearance.

Pikitia Hannah

Lovely Rivera

Lovely Rivera appeared as a recurring character throughout 2022 to 2023. Lovely arrived as a new temp nurse at the hospital and surprised her childhood best friend

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(Marianne Infante). Swiftly moving in with Madonna and her daughter

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(Athena Matthews), Lovely made an impression in Ferndale and grew attracted to TK Samuels (Benjamin Mitchell). However Lovely and Madonna soon fell out when she drunkenly admitted to having an affair with Madonna's husband Samson. Lovely continued sporadically at the hospital throughout the year, eventually reconciling albeit never-as-close with Madonna. Madonna was shocked when she discovered Lovely was dating gang member Taz Brooker (Niwa Whatuira). Despite Lovely being in love, Madonna pressured her to leave Taz due to his gang's violent nature. Lovely later quit nursing after a staffing shortage saw her forced into ED, where her inexperience caused the death of a patient. Following a bar fight early in 2023, Lovely was stabbed by Taz and after narrowly surviving surgery, she discovered she was pregnant. Desperate to abort so to dissociate herself with Taz, Lovely found herself encouraged to keep the baby by the new Church management of the hospital, alongside Madonna enforcing a new anti-abortion policy. Sometime later Lovely was admitted to the hospital having attempted to perform an abortion on herself. Forced to undergo a total

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, Lovely survived but permanently ended her friendship with Madonna due to her judgement on the issue.

Rahu Parata

Rahu Parata featured as a regular character from 2022 until the characters death in late 2023. His corpse appeared on-screen in 2024. He was introduced during the show's 30th anniversary as a potential love interest for established character Esther Samuels (

Ngahuia Piripi Ngahuia Piripi is a New Zealand television actress. Piripi plays Esther Samuels on the New Zealand soap opera ''Shortland Street''. Biography Piripi was born in Auckland to Poto Stephens-Dunn and Haami Piripi; she was raised by her mother. She ...

). Rahu arrived to Ferndale to attend cousin

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's (Kura Forrester) wedding to Damo (Grant Lobban). Instantly sparking a connection with Esther, he departed only to return over the

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weekend and after being rejected at the airport due to parking ticket fines, end up winning a job at the hospital. Rahu soon emerged as a womaniser and shortly after romancing

Ngaio Wira The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the New Zealand soap opera ''Shortland Street'' in 2022, by order of first appearance. Pikitia Hannah Lovely Rivera Lovely Rivera appeared as a recurring character throughout 20 ...

(Trae Te Wiki), started dating her niece

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(Awa Puna). However, after some hesitations in the relationship due to Rahu's reluctance at Gia being

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, she left him. A short lived romance with Nicole (Sally Martin) led to the revelation that Rahu had

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and had spread it throughout the Nursing department. Rahu soon fell for Stella Reihana (Tatum Warren-Ngata) but this sparked a rivalry with her ex-boyfriend

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(Xander Manktelow). As the year ended, Rahu uncovered that Harry had faked his surgical qualifications, but before he could reveal this, was stabbed repeatedly by a patient. Stepping in to undertake the live-saving surgery, Harry purposely sabotaged the procedure; killing Rahu and burying his secret. Fans were reportedly "devastated" when Rahu was killed in the 2023 Christmas cliffhanger.

Cassie Lloyd

Ngaio Wira

Rebekah Anderson

Rebekah Anderson appeared in a recurring role from 2022 to 2023, portrayed by

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. The character was written for Prebble, with complete flexibility allowed for filming to ensure her availability. Prebble was initially unaware her character would be an

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Ranger Harrison

Ranger Harrison appeared across several episodes in December 2022. First mentioned through dialogue in 2017, Ranger was the daughter of long running characters

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(Karl Burnett) and

Waverley Harrison Waverley "Wave" Harrison (also Wilson, previously Wallasee) is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. She was portrayed by Claire Chitham and was introduced as a love interest for Nick Harrison who she eventually m ...

(

Claire Chitham Claire Chitham (born 12 July 1978, in Auckland) is a New Zealand television actress. Claire rose to fame as Waverley Harrison (née Wilson) in the New Zealand TV show ''Shortland Street'', from 1994–1995 and 1997–2005 and Aurora Bay in '' Ou ...

). Revealed to be an influencer family, the Harrisons went camping in the Ferndale forest over Christmas 2022 where Waverley live-streamed their experience. Failing to properly extinguish their campfire, the forest caught alight and started a serious wildfire resulting in multiple fatalities. Ranger visited hospital alongside her family following smoke inhalation.

Camry Harrison

Camry Harrison appeared across several episodes in December 2022. First mentioned through dialogue in 2017, Camry was the son of long running characters

(Karl Burnett) and

(

). Revealed to be an influencer family, the Harrisons went camping in the Ferndale forest over Christmas 2022 where Waverley live-streamed their experience. Failing to properly extinguish their campfire, the forest caught alight and started a serious wildfire resulting in multiple fatalities. Camry visited hospital alongside his family following smoke inhalation.

Silvia Harrison

Silvia Harrison appeared across several episodes in December 2022. First mentioned through dialogue in 2017, Silvia was the youngest daughter of long running characters

(Karl Burnett) and

(

). Whilst visiting Ferndale for

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's (

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) 50th birthday, Waverley and Nick were shocked to discover they were expecting another child. Longtime family friend

Marj Brasch Marjorie "Marj" Brasch (previously Neilson) is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera ''Shortland Street''. Being part of the original cast, she was portrayed by Elizabeth McRae from the show's first season in 1992 up until 1996. S ...

(

Elizabeth McRae Elizabeth Helen McRae (née Kersley; born 1 August 1936) is a New Zealand actress, best known for her portrayal of Marjorie Brasch (née Neilson) in the television soap opera ''Shortland Street'', and, in the last decade, as Jean Marlowe, in ...

) encouraged them to embrace the pregnancy shortly before she died. In 2022, the now 5-year old Silvia and the Harrisons went camping in the Ferndale forest over Christmas 2022 where Waverley live-streamed their experience. Failing to properly extinguish their campfire, the forest caught alight and started a serious wildfire resulting in multiple fatalities. Silvia visited hospital alongside her family following smoke inhalation.

Milo Cross

Milo Cross appeared as a recurring character from late-2022 in a 6-month guest role. Milo first arrived to the hospital as the victim of the Ferndale bush fires, where his father was killed. In the aftermath of the fire, Milo befriended TK Samuels' (Benjamin Mitchell) daughter Tillie (Tinihuia Lee-Lemon), and led her astray. The two got involved in a ram raid which saw Tillie hospitalised, and when TK confronted him, Milo assaulted him and left him for dead; recording the incident. Milo returned to the hospital with his very sick mother Annabel (Kylie Cushman) and when she suddenly died, Milo took out a vendetta on her doctor Marty (Scott Smart). Milo was arrested when he assaulted Rahu Parata (Zak Martin) and was put into rehabilitation to sort his anger issues. Milo returned some months later and frustrated TK and Marty, when Rahu took him in, began mentoring him and channeled his anger into boxing. However his lingering bitterness toward Marty escalated and he snuck into the hospital with a gun, shooting several staff members, paralysing TK, and killing Quinn Cox (Clementine Mills). When attempting to kill Marty, Marty insulted and mocked Milo for his shortcomings, letting out his anger and hatred for Milo who then opted to shoot himself, leaving Marty with

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at having witnessed his death. Several months later, Marty hallucinated a vision of Milo in his distress. Porter found an array of audience responses to the character, believing "I think that Milo’s struggles are pretty relatable to some degree, but it’s pretty obvious that he is going about it the completely wrong way." The reaction to the character allegedly resulted in Porter's personal car being targeted and vandalised.

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